International groups move to criminalize fake drugs

A recent article in Nature News highlights international efforts to redefine medicine counterfeiting as a crime instead of patent infringement. With regulations under development in Europe and the United States, the World Health Organization is set to propose a mechanism for harmonizing global enforcement in May, at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. The scheme will exclude trade and intellectual-property considerations and focus solely on counterfeits as a humanitarian crime.

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